FSC2346 Leading Digital Learning in Your School: A Practical Guide to the Digital Learning Planning Cycle

The participant should be enabled to:

• Understand the need for schools to prepare students to contribute to today’s technology society;
• Recognise the advantages and disadvantages of technology in education;
• Know the most important policy documents which are guiding digital learning in Ireland;
• Understand how digital learning planning can be integrated into SSE

The participant should be enabled to:

• Understand the importance of a strong vision for digital learning
• Create a strong vision for digital learning
• Understand the role of the Digital Learning Team
• Create an effective Digital Learning Team
• Complete the first step of the Digital Learning Planning Cycle by identifying a focus for your Digital Learning Plan

The participant should be enabled to:

• Gather focused evidence
• Utilise a range of methods to gather evidence
• Analyse different kinds of data
• Make judgements based on the data collected
• Complete the second and third steps of the Digital Learning Planning Cycle by gathering evidence, and analysing and making judgements

The participant should be enabled to:

• Understand how to structure a Digital Learning Plan
• Set specific and achievable targets
• Know a range of supports that exist to assist schools in providing appropriate resources for digital learning
• Use a range of strategies to put the Digital Learning Plan into action
• Complete the fourth and fifth steps of the Digital Learning Planning Cycle by writing and sharing the Digital Learning Plan, and putting the Digital Learning Plan into action

The participant should be enabled to:

• Use a range of methods to evaluate a Digital Learning Plan
• Understand how the evaluation of this cycle of the Digital Learning Plan should contribute to the next cycle
• Identify some initiatives for the recognition of excellence in digital learning
• Understand the process for gaining recognition of excellence in digital learning through the Digital Schools Awards and Apple Distinguished School programmes
• Complete the sixth step of the Digital Learning Planning Cycle by monitoring actions and evaluating the impact of the Digital Learning Plan